LEADER 03858nam 2200613 450 001 9910453596203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-13887-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300138870 035 $a(CKB)2550000001192028 035 $a(EBL)3421376 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115609 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11636298 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115609 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11082796 035 $a(PQKB)10609578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421376 035 $a(DE-B1597)484946 035 $a(OCoLC)1024023169 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300138870 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421376 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10833591 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL572022 035 $a(OCoLC)923605524 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001192028 100 $a20140210h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe FBI $ea history /$fRhodri Jeffreys-Jones ; Mary Valencia, design 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-11914-3 311 $a1-306-40771-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tCHAPTER 1 Race and the Character of the FBI -- $tCHAPTER 2 Secret Reconstruction, 1871-1905 -- $tCHAPTER 3 Proud Genesis, 1905-1909 -- $tCHAPTER 4 Loss of Mission, 1909-1924 -- $tCHAPTER 5 The First Age of Reform, 1924-1939 -- $tCHAPTER 6 Counterespionage and Control, 1938-1945 -- $tCHAPTER 7 The Alienation of Liberal America, 1924-1943 -- $tCHAPTER 8 Gestapo Fears and the Intelligence Schism, 1940-1975 -- $tCHAPTER 9 Anachronism as Myth and Reality, 1945-1972 -- $tCHAPTER 10 A Crisis of American Democracy, 1972-1975 -- $tCHAPTER 11 Reform and Its Critics, 1975-1980 -- $tCHAPTER 12 Mission Regained, 1981-1993 -- $tCHAPTER 13 Strife and Slippage, 1993-2001 -- $tCHAPTER 14 9/11 and the Quest for National Unity -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aThis fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureau's story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution. Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror against black American voters. The character and significance of the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first century. The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of attorneys general underestimated, that splitting counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly controversial nature of its responsibilities.   606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a363.250973 700 $aJeffreys-Jones$b Rhodri$0983147 701 $aValencia$b Mary$01037545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453596203321 996 $aThe FBI$92458584 997 $aUNINA